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Effective Software Architecture: Building Better Software Faster
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Effective Software Architecture: Building Better Software Faster

by Oliver Goldman
May 2024
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
240 pages
5h 56m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 1

Software Architecture

An effective software architecture practice helps product development organizations produce better software faster. But before we can discuss an effective practice, we need an understanding of software architecture. It’s a term that’s used frequently in the software industry, and often with a certain laxness. Tightening up our definition is important, as the practices in this book are closely aligned with a strict and complete definition of architecture.

Software architecture is often equated with software design, but the two are actually quite distinct. A design is a specific, point-in-time arrangement of software components that, collectively, form a software system. As we develop each release of that system ...

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ISBN: 9780138249205